Dartmouth Events

Hop Film: Becoming Led Zeppelin

This psychedelic cinematic odyssey explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.

5/16/2025
7:00 pm – 9:15 pm
Loew Auditorium, Black Family Visual Arts Center
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Films
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

This psychedelic cinematic odyssey explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds.

Powered by awe-inspiring, never-before-seen footage, performance, and music, Led Zeppelin's creative and personal origin story comes to the big screen. Featuring interviews with Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones, this new documentary traces the early years of the band that made such timeless hits as Stairway to Heaven, Immigrant Song and Whole Lotta Love.

The director Bernard MacMahon and his co-writer, Allison McGourty, have gone deep into the archives and, with help from the editor Dan Gitlin and the sound supervisor Nick Bergh, come up with loads of images of the baby rockers at work and at play. As time skips forward, the future rock gods fall ever-deeper in love with music as they begin strumming, banging, singing and posing. This hagiographic documentary will create a new generation of fans—and delivers a headbangin' good time.

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
603 646 2422

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